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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"You remember that llm we spend billions of dollars on, that nobody asked for? Well we're done half baking it into all our apps and now we're almost doubling our prices to help pay for it all."

The logic of the utterly deranged...

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You can call the sales team and ask them to change your subscription to the classic version to opt-out of Copilot and get the old price back, if you still need the subscription over changing to other open source office suites.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago (27 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is like adding ESPN to the live TV package.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fuck the MS suite is such garbage. My work was sold in for Teams with all the BS. Now I have to either map up the filepath creating what we used to have, or I can't see the file folder and make a call at the same time. Onenote with it's arbitrary syncing. And good luck finding it again since it stored at some random place if you loose access.

Word and excel is decent, but for a person who likes to tinker with versions it's a nightmare to invite people to edit it.

Cluncky interface, slow and bloated all around

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

The degree to which MS Teams can get fucked by the horse it rode in on is proportional to the number of registry entries their bloatware has on first install.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (8 children)

why not just do:

microsoft 365: 6.99

microsoft 365 + copilot: 9.99

blobcat, think

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

You damn well know why they dont do that $$$

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Hey guys, let's stop ending prices in .99 in our social interactions.

It's a relic that only exists to take advantage of people's psychology. We shouldn't be doing the dirty work for corporations.

Here, let me help:

why not just do:

microsoft 365: $7

microsoft 365 + copilot: $10

Don't type more so you can help businesses fool people into thinking prices are lower than they actually are.

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